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The parts of speech Traditional grammar clasified words base don eight parts of speech
DESCRIPTION
Tells of an action, a state of being, or an event. Examples: Am, is, are, run, jump, play, raining, reading. Describes a person, place, thing, event, idea, etc. Examples: Mom, coach, Toledo, book, party. storm. mornent. A word used in place of a noun. Examples: She, he, it, they, us, 1, you, we, them
Used to describe a noun or pronoun. Examples: Green, blue, fearless, quick, enormous, wonderful.
Used to describe everything except nouns and pronouns. It answers questions such as how, when. where or why and often ends n ly. Examples: Near, far, today, now, very, easily, quietly.
TYPE
Auxiliary, lexical, dinamics, stative, finitive, non finitive, regular, irregular, transitive, intransitive. Proper, common, concrete, abstract contable, non-contable, collective, compound Personal (objective, subjective and possessive personal pronouns), demostrative, interrogative, indefinite, relative,
EXAMPLE
be, have, do include can, could, may, must, should, will, and would. know, like, own, seem Mexico, dog, file, love, work, cars, gaggle, whichever.
Me, hers , my self, that, what, whom, wich, who, this, these, that, you, we, ours, us. any, none, some, somebody. My, your, his, her, its, our, their This, these, that, those, what. Also, consequently, finlly, hence, however, indeed, instead, likewise, meanwile, nevertheless, next nonetheless, therefore About, above, across, after,against along, among, around, at, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, but, by, despite, down, during, except, for, from, in, inside, into, like, near, of, off, on, onto, out, outside, over, past, since, through, throughout, till, to toward, under, underheath, untill, up, upon, with, within, without. And, but, nor, or, for, so, yet,after, although, as, because, before, how, it, once, since, tan, that, though, till, untill, when, where, wheter, while.
Tells the relationship between nouns, pronouns, or other words in a sentence. Most often used before the noun. Examples: He jumped over the fence. 1 sat beside the fire. We went nto the store.
CONJUCTION INTERJECTION
Joins words, phrases or sentences together. Some are used in pairs. Some are adverbs, being used as conjunctions. Examples: And, but, so, either, or, neither, or, because, finally, still, yet. A word expressing emotion. Strong interjections are followed by exclamation points. Mild interjections are followed by commas. Examples: Hey! Wow! Ouch! Oh, 1 think l*ve got it.